North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks reviewed by Soul Dreamer

Good debut album. The music has some resemblance to bands like Oceansize, The Pineapple Thief, Pure Reason Revolution. Might be classified as "Post-progressive Rock"

Mystery - One Among the Living reviewed by Soul Dreamer

Great album, Benoid David is a gifted singer, the compositions and melodies are great. Check this out if you like neo prog with great vocals

Toto - Through The Looking Glass reviewed by rushfan4

An album of cover songs given the Toto treatment.

Spock's Beard - X reviewed by Soul Dreamer

This is a return to form of Spock's Beard: Much better than the previous records, on par with V. It's jazzy symphonic rock (don't know where to put the jazzy part in the tag editor...) and I think it's a great record.

Haken - Aquarius reviewed by Soul Dreamer

Great album and debut! This is metal mixed with jazzy influences. There are a few growls here but don't let it take you away from the music, it's great (like Opeth...) Any lover of Opeth will love this also.

Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here reviewed by Soul Dreamer

We've got a winner here! The style didn't change much from the "Natural Disaster" album, but this album contains no filler, all tracks are top the only somewhat weaker track I can spot is "Get off Get Out". This album is a classic which will stand ...

Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here reviewed by rdtprog

Future classic!

Ciccada - A Child in the Mirror reviewed by avestin

Unlike the Cicada insects whose music might sit comfortably in the avant-garde/noise camp, this Greek sextet called Ciccada makes pleasant melodic, folk-tinged progressive rock with heavy emphasis on keyboards and flute.

Gracious - Gracious! reviewed by lukretio

The debut album by Gracious contains about 45mins of incredibly creative and eclectic music with fairly complex textures and with melodies that are always enjoyable. The spotlights here are on Martin Kitcat’s keyboards (he mostly ...

Titus Groan - Titus Groan & ... plus (1989) reviewed by lukretio

Titus Groan is not a masterpiece (as sometimes advertised) but is not a bad album either. It has decent melodies, good dynamics and well arranged songs performed by skilful musicians. And it has loads of woodwind parts, which are ...

Fantasy - Beyond the Beyond plus... reviewed by lukretio

Fantasy’s second effort, Beyond the Beyond, was registered in 1974 but didn’t see the light at the time and was only released in the early 90s. This is really unfortunate as this album is such a decisive improvement over their debut ...

Fantasy - Paint A Picture reviewed by lukretio

Fantasy’s Paint a Picture is an album you will enjoy at first listening. 45mins of very song-oriented melodic prog rock with decent keyboard arrangements (mostly hammond), decent guitar work, good texture and very good vocals. The ...

Foo Fighters - Hyde Park reviewed by rushfan4

I have bootleg copy of DVD on CD. The sound quality is kind of poor as it was recorded off of the internet, but otherwise this is a good show.

Druid - Fluid Druid reviewed by lukretio

Definitely not as good as its predecessor, Fluid Druid contains about 40mins of average prog pop-rock. Dane’s singing, which in my opinion was one of the highlights of the debut album, becomes more aggressive and unnatural at places ...

Björn J:son Lindh - Från Storstad Till Grodspad reviewed by Logan

Wonderful album -- a real fave of mine.

Ralf Nowy - Lucifer's Dream reviewed by Logan

A true gem of Krautrock, but an under-known album. This eclectic album blends psyche, jazz, folk, symph, blues, pop and Eastern music in a very satisfying way. It is one of my favourite albums.

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis reviewed by Mike

I like the album - I guess you could say that it's "more of the same", but nicely done anyway. Listened to it the other day after the latest Elvis Costello album and thought: This is like the sonic version of contrast showering ...

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All reviewed by UMUR

One Size Fits All is a milestone in Frank Zappa´s discography and a favorite of mine. The weird humour, the tightly played fusion rythms, the bluesy guitar licks and soloing, the clever vocal arrangement and ...

Behind the Curtain - Till Birth Do Us Part reviewed by Time_Signature

This is a really, really nice album. The athmosphere is generally dark and reminds me a bit of Psychotic Waltz meets King Diamond/Mercyful Fate. Musically, there is plenty of melody and semi-quirky keybord figures as well as a driving ...

Mongol - Doppler 444 reviewed by Bj-1

Sadly overlooked group, really. Doppler 444 is a strong but perhaps a bit unfocused album, although "Driller" is one of the genre's better songs. I'd like to call this 'Kenso with a Dream Theater attitude' since cool fusion ...

Dream Theater - Live at Tokyo Sun Plaza reviewed by Time_Signature

Great performance - as always - but mediocre sound production.

Guernica - Shinseiki E No Unga reviewed by DamoXt7942

Short songs but with powerful synth plus orchestration and paranoic voices in it...a hard-to-categorize musical style as before.

The theme is exactly a Japanese Dadaism named "Taisho-Romanticism", ...

Puffy64 - Last Ninja II - Tribute reviewed by Time_Signature

While not perfectly, this is basically a good and, at the time of making, original idea. Puffy64 seemlessy mixes heavily distorted guitars with the C64-ish sounds reminiscent of those used in the original game. While not that well ...

Paul Cusick - Focal Point reviewed by Spitf1r3

A great surprise in 2009 came from this multi-instrumentalist. A superb debut album. If you like Porcupine Tree or Steven Wilson compositions you have to buy this abum.

In Mourning - Monolith reviewed by Mike

This actually isn't too progressive - the tracks have somewhat conventional structure, but they also feature the occasional extreme outburst (think Meshuggah or Opeth). All in all: A nicely done album!

Death - Spiritual Healing reviewed by Time_Signature

"Spiritual Healing" was probably the first really prog-related effort by Death, and, while it is not a masterpiece compared to Death's last four albums, it is way more interesting than many other death metal releases at the time. ...

Death - Leprosy reviewed by Time_Signature

While less progressive and more of a straight death metal album than any of Death's subsequent albums, "Leptrosy" is nevertheless miles many other death metal releases at the time. There is plenty of unmistakably Chuck Schuldiner riffage ...

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus reviewed by Time_Signature

What a great album this is! The music's straight out epic doom the way it should be. I really like Johan Langquist's vocals on this album (theer's a quality of desperation to his singing that neither Messiah Marcolin nor Rob Lowe ...

Compression - Compression reviewed by Time_Signature

I stumbled across this album in the local record store in the discount section. The price was 5 DKR (that's less than one Euro), so I thought "What the hell!".

Was it worth it? Gee, I actually don't know. I guess, ...

Amplifier - Amplifier reviewed by Obi

Very, very hard to fault. Amplifier create a mighty wall of sound drowned with lots and lots of guitar riffs.

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